Improvement in egg-testers



. HARRIS.

g-Testers.

No. 205,547. Patented July 2,1878.

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ATTORNEYS.

N.PEYERS, PHOTO LITHQGRAFHEFL WASHINGTOM D, C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

FRED. B. HARRIS, OF BATAVIA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TOADIN G. GAGE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEM ENT IN EGG-TESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 205,547, dated July 2,1878 application filed October 29, 1877. i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED. B. HARRIS, of Batavia, in the county ofGenesee and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Egg-Testers, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a top view of my improved de vice. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectionof the same, taken through the line 90 as, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved device fortesting eggs, which shall be simple in construction and convenient andreliable in use, enabling the eggs to be tested rapidly, and the badones unfailingly distinguished.

The invention will first be described in c011- nection with the drawing,and then pointed out in claim.

A is a rectangular box, of any desired size, the forward side of whichis made the higher, and is mostly cut away to give an unobstructed viewof the bottom of said box.

B is the top of the box, the ends of which rest in rabbets in theinclined top edges of the ends of said box, and which is secured inplace by buttons b pivoted to the edges of the ends of the box A, and bytoes 1) upon its lower edge, and which enter recesses in the rear sideof said box.

The top B may be permanently attached to the box A, if desired; but Iprefer to make it detachable, to enable the box to be cleaned morereadily when desired.

In the top B are formed a number of holes,

of such a size as to receive and hold the eggs,

but which will not allow said eggs to pass through. In the bottom of thebox A is secured a mirror or reflector, 0.

With this construction, when eggs are placed in the holes of the top Band exposed to the light, the reflection from the reflector G will showat a glance whether the said eggs be good or bad, the reflection fromthe good eggs being light, and that from the bad eggs being dark.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- An egg-tester in which the mirror is arrangedhorizontally on the bottom, the egg-holder in'- clined, and the largerend of the box left open, as shown and described.

FRED. B. HARRIS.

Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, O. SEDewIoK.

